Bloxom Jr. easily outdistances Randall for 100th District seat

Feb. 26, 2014

Written by

Ted Shockley

Staff Writer

Republican Robert S. Bloxom Jr. of Accomack County easily outdistanced Democrat Willie Randall of Northampton County to win the seat. / submitted image

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After State Sen. Lynwood Lewis’ 11-vote win in a special election last month, Eastern Shore residents may have been anticipating another wafer-thin race for the 100th District House of Delegates seat Lewis vacated.

They didn’t get it.

Republican Robert S. Bloxom Jr. of Accomack County, the son of one of the Eastern Shore of Virginia’s most esteemed political figures, easily outdistanced Democrat Willie Randall of Northampton County to win the seat.

Bloxom won 60 percent of the vote, 6,810-4,473. He won 65.5 percent of the vote in Accomack County, which trends Republican, and 55.3 percent of the vote in Northampton County, which tends to favor Democrats at the polls.

Randall won the nine Norfolk precincts with 51 percent of the vote there.

The special election capped a winter season of caucuses, recounts and firehouse primaries set in motion by the election of Ralph Northam, an Accomack native, to the office of lieutenant governor.

Northam, a Democrat, resigned his 6th District State Senate seat.

Lewis, a Democrat, won the State Senate election by 11 votes in January over Norfolk businessman and Republican Wayne Coleman.

Bloxom’s father, Robert S. Bloxom, is a 26-year member of the House.

The 51-year-old Bloxom Jr. is the owner of Bloxom Auto Supply Co. in Mappsville, Shore Tire and Auto in Onley and Egret Point Seafood Co.